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I would have named it "fish and ships", but the only fish big enough to be seen would be whales, and they're not fish. Sigh. Always something.Speaking of mix-ups, this is the infamous leviathan, leviathanus bengalensis poloii, the kind that lives off the east coast of India. The so-called "leviathan" in the Red Sea that inspired ancient peoples to creatures like Skylla, the monster Odysseus met, is a different species altogether.

Build dreadnaught ships to guard trading routes? Employ orbital defense stations? Poison the waters? Most likely, the fishing industry will complain until we create seamonsters of our own, give them the unsuspicious code name "Scylla", let them loose on the things, and be surprised when they start multiplying uncontrollably, eating more ships than the original leviathans.Thanks!

The details on that ship are so incredible! I love that you can see all the way down into the mouth of the beast, and the way the movement causes the image to lose focus towards the edges of the scene.

Well, you obviously did not make your phd in zoomorphology, as I have. So let me point out that kraken, octopus rotatiensis have a beak and only eight arms, and normally live in the Atlantic (except for the rare species octopa multibrare cookii on Australia's south coast, of which only female specimen have been observed). Leviathans, leviathanus embarco, on the other hand, prefer tropical waters and have multiple teeth rows as well as a number of arms between seven and ninety-nine. They are also winners of the climate change; it has been suggested that they took residence in the tropics because of the many ships in ancient times, and modern times have only increased the ship traffic.